On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:32:29PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote: > So, why are there packages with depends lines that include both perl5 and > a particular version, like perl-5.005?
When a package depends on a virtual package which is provided by multiple real packages, but none of these are already installed (hint: new installation of the whole system), APT and dselect will be confused and not know what to do, because they can't just make a guess and install a package when several equal (to them) options are present. [1] Anyway, that's just one possible explanation, it might not be valid in this particular case. [1] What a large sentence... :) -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
